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08/12/2026

🎬 SFFP Members, your Re:Vision discount is here!

Tickets and passes for Re:Vision: Festival of Restoration and Rediscovery are now on sale. The festival runs September 24–27 at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco.

As an SFFP Member, you get:
🎟️ $50 off the all-festival pass
🎟️ 20% off individual tickets
🎞️ Full schedule + tickets: filmpreserve.org/revision

Not a member yet? Join today to unlock your discount before tickets go fast: filmpreserve.org/memberships/

Members: check your email for your discount code, or reach out if you need it resent.

See you at the movies! 🍿 (Photo: Národní filmový archiv)

08/11/2026

RE:VISION TICKETS NOW ON SALE! The day has finally arrived: the Re:Vision schedule is live, and tickets and passes are now on sale!

📽️ https://filmpreserve.org/revision/

This program spans 18 countries, and genre doesn’t constrain it any more than geography does. Fantastical? Try The Outcasts (Ireland, 1982). Midnight movie energy? Los leprosos y el s**o [Lepers and S*x aka Santo vs. The Riders of Terror] (Mexico, 1970) is calling your name. Something more experimental? The Waiting Room (United States, 1973) will be right up your alley.

Moving images have been part of our collective consciousness for around 130 years now, and Re:Vision spans eleven of those decades, tracing the style, genre, and format shifts across the history of the moving image.

Fourteen screenings over four days. Each feature is paired with a complementary short, some programs open with additional shorts, and even the pre-roll has surprises in store, so don’t miss a minute.

SFFP Members get 20% off all tickets and $50 off festival passes: one more great reason to join today. https://filmpreserve.org/memberships/

🎟️ Tickets and passes on sale now
📅 Full schedule live at the link in bio

08/07/2026

Every restoration is a series of choices.

Devo’s films and videos are as unconventional as the band itself, and preserving them means deciding what to preserve, what to rebuild, and how to bring aging film and video to today’s audiences without losing what made the work so distinctive.

Join us next Friday for ONLINE WITH SFFP as film restorer and musician Peter Conheim takes us inside the restoration of Devo’s film and video archive. With decades of experience as both a musician and preservationist, Conheim offers a rare perspective on preserving one of music’s most singular visual legacies.

📅 Friday, August 14 • 12:00 pm PT
👉 Register: https://filmpreserve.org/event/online-with-sffp-a-case-study-in-de-evolution-restoring-the-films-of-devo/
FREE and open to all!

08/05/2026

Members, you’re first in line. 🎬

Re:Vision festival passes go on sale today, for SFFP members only! Join now to get priority access to discounted passes before they open to the public, plus an early look at program details nobody else has seen yet. 👀

👉 BECOME A MEMBER: filmpreserve.org/memberships

The inaugural Re:Vision: Festival of Restoration and Rediscovery runs September 24–27 at the historic Roxie Theater, with 14 programs of restored and rediscovered cinema from around the world, including:

🎞️ My Name Ain’t Suzie (Hong Kong, 1985), Angie Chen’s remarkable drama
🎞️ The Outcasts (Ireland, 1982), Robert Wynne-Simmons’ folk horror
🎞️ Gehenu Lamai (Sri Lanka, 1978), by Sumitra Peries, Sri Lanka’s first female director
🎞️ A newly scanned collection of Len Lye’s short animated films, from SFFP and Scan2Screen

📽️ MORE INFO ABOUT RE:VISION: filmpreserve.org/revision

Become a member today at filmpreserve.org/memberships, and you’ll receive an email with everything you need, including how to purchase your pass.

(Photo: The Outcasts, 1982; Image credit: Deaf Crocodile)

08/04/2026

This close-up has outlived the country it was filmed in. 👀

Can you guess the film? This teaser is a glimpse of one of the 14 programs coming to the inaugural Re:Vision: Festival of Restoration and Rediscovery, September 24–27 at San Francisco’s historic Roxie Theater.

👉 https://filmpreserve.org/revision/

We’ll be revealing more about this one, and the rest of the lineup, very soon. In the meantime: take a guess in the comments.

Re:Vision brings together films from around the world, across genres, decades, and styles: the fruits of archivists’ work to preserve and share moving image history. Expect special introductions, guests, and a full weekend of cinematic discovery.

🎟️ Passes and tickets go on sale soon. SFFP members get priority access to discounted passes before they go on sale to the public — which is sooner than you think 😉 SIGN UP HERE: https://filmpreserve.org/memberships/

07/31/2026

What does it actually take to restore a beloved new wave band’s film archive? On August 14, ONLINE WITH SFFP finds out!

Peter Conheim spends his days untangling the physical and technical puzzle of bringing Devo’s film and video works back to life — decoding aging masters, weighing what to preserve versus what to reinvent, and making the archive legible for modern screens.

Conheim’s own résumé reads like an underground-art fever dream: co-founder of Wet Gate (the “all-16mm-projector-band”), member of Oakland’s Mono Pause, and a two-decade stint with plunderphonic collective Negativland. His restoration work lives at the intersection of punk, underground art, and film.

ONLINE WITH SFFP: “A Case Study in DE-EVOLUTION: Restoring the Films of DEVO”
Friday, August 14, 12:00 pm PST
👉 FREE! INFO & REGISTRATION: https://filmpreserve.org/event/online-with-sffp-a-case-study-in-de-evolution-restoring-the-films-of-devo/

07/29/2026

It took a century, six archives, and a festival full of strangers in Italy falling for it all over again. Next week, SUNRISE lands in New York.

US PREMIERE — SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS
📍 MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
🕖 Tuesday, August 4, 7:00 pm
🎹 Live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura
🎟️ Tickets: moma.org/calendar/events/11562

F. W. Murnau’s SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (1927) arrives at MoMA in a landmark new restoration led by the San Francisco Film Preserve, with archival elements drawn from the British Film Institute (BFI), Cinémathèque royale de Belgique (Cinematek), Eye Filmmuseum, The Museum of Modern Art, Národní filmový archiv, and George Eastman Museum.

Murnau’s first American film was made under conditions almost no director gets: William Fox handed him total creative freedom. What came out of it is a fable so universal its characters are credited only as “The Man,” “The Wife,” and “The Woman from the City” — and a camera that moves through Murnau’s forced-perspective sets with a fluidity American audiences had never seen before.

07/28/2026

Re:Vision: Festival of Restoration & Rediscovery is coming to The Roxie Theater, September 24–27 — and SFFP members get in first.

Membership means primary access to festival passes and first word on programming, before anyone else hears it. If you’ve been following our restoration work, this is the next chapter...and you can be part of it from day one.

👉 To become an SFFP member, visit https://filmpreserve.org/memberships/. Learn more about Re:Vision here: https://filmpreserve.org/revision/

07/23/2026

Mark your calendars: on Friday, August 14, ONLINE WITH SFFP welcomes film/media restorer Peter Conheim for a deep dive into “A Case Study in DE-EVOLUTION: Restoring the Films of DEVO.”

Devo’s film and video work helped define the band’s visual identity, but bringing those aging masters into the modern era is its own kind of archaeology. Conheim walks through the tangled process of reconstructing and restoring these works, and the choices involved in translating antiquated formats for today’s screens.

Conheim, a co-founder of the all-16mm-projector band Wet Gate and Oakland’s Mono Pause, spent 20 years as a member of plunderphonic legends Negativland. His restoration work centers on the crossroads of punk and underground art with film, along with overlooked independent American features.

ONLINE WITH SFFP is San Francisco Film Preserve’s free monthly series. This episode runs 12:00–1:00 pm PST on Friday, August 14, and it’s free and open to everyone!

👉 REGISTER NOW: https://filmpreserve.org/event/online-with-sffp-a-case-study-in-de-evolution-restoring-the-films-of-devo/

07/22/2026

🎬 RE:VISION 2026 — PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

We announced Re:Vision: Festival of Restoration and Rediscovery yesterday, and honestly, this is only the beginning. Here’s a closer look at four of the programs already in the lineup:

🎞️ Angie Chen’s remarkable MY NAME AIN’T SUZIE (Hong Kong, 1985)
🎞️ Robert Wynne-Simmons’ folk horror THE OUTCASTS (Ireland, 1982)
🎞️ GEHENU LAMAI (Sri Lanka, 1978) by Sumitra Peries, Sri Lanka’s first female director
🎞️ A newly scanned collection of LEN LYE’s short animated films from SFFP and Scan2Screen

Each program — 14 in total! — pairs a feature with a short, and some include even more! Expect special introductions, guests, and a full weekend of cinematic adventure.

📅 Mark your calendars: September 24-27 at the historic Roxie Theater in San Francisco.
👉 Learn more about Re:Vision: https://filmpreserve.org/revision/
🎟️ Tickets go on sale soon. SFFP members get first access, so join now if you haven’t already: https://filmpreserve.org/memberships/

(Image credits: ‘My Name Ain’t Suzie’ — Kani Releasing; ‘The Outcasts’ — Deaf Crocodile; ‘Gehenu Lamai’ — Film Heritage Foundation; Len Lye films — San Francisco Film Preserve)

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